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Comment by Spazmoose

Hoku has a few interesting abilities, but nothing that is too difficult to deal with. He will cast Blood Bolts at you, which do relatively little damage, until he uses Exsanguination, which will root/stun you over the boiling blood pots on the sides for a few seconds and will heal him for a significant amount. At the same time, he will spawn some bloods/oozes, which when killed will grant you Blood Infusion, a stacking "debuff", which grants you 10% additional damage per stack, as well as heal you for large amount.

After he releases you from Exsanguination, he will begin casting Rivers of Blood, which will do a decent amount of damage, but you can simply run out of it to avoid the damage, or if you are melee, you should be able to take the damage as long as you kill the bloods and get out.

The key to the fight is to kill the bloods that spawn in order to get the stacks of Blood Infusion up, so that you can kill him in between him casting Exsanguination. I was able to get the debuff up to 9 relatively easily, but you may want to space out killing them, so that the debuff doesn't drop off before the next Exsanguination.

My suggestion is to get the debuff up to 9 stacks, then use all of your cooldowns, and burn him quickly.

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Comment by redandgray

If you are playing a tank with relatively low dps, this boss may be nearly impossible to solo. If you can't kill the next set of blood oozes before their buff drops off, you will never be able to stack the buff high enough to overcome the boss's healing phase.

Comment by Aslan

I'm guessing they've tweaked this guy. Whenever I get Blood Boil and get stunned I get hit for 1/2 my health. THEN about 1/2 the time he will cast River of Blood WHILE I'm stunned to kill me. Blizz seriously needs to fix this guy. I am a level 486 Feral Druid and the closest I've gotten him is 21%

Comment by Arannia

Much easier with a friend - you both get a set of bloods, but killing one gives both of you the buff. Vital for me as a healer.

Comment by Sneaksie

So am I the only one this guy constantly evade bugs for during Exsanguination?I can't seem to find any rhyme or reason why it happens (maybe because I'm playing rogue and poisons and other DoTs are triggering it?)

happened 5 times in a row today first of which he was already down to 5% getting really tired of these marathon fights against him

Comment by Fechan

When he corrupts your blood, three adds spawn that look like typical slime NPCs, just kill them and you get all your health back. You get a big chunk per kill. If they get to him he's topped off and you die. 516 frost mage I only need two cycles to take him down.

Comment by Vhalyfox

I accidentally went to timeless isle before doing isle of thunder, when I got there I earned the achievement You Made Me Bleed My Own Blood without even knowing about it, since I didn't know how the fight worked.These tips aren't really big stuff but might help any fresh 90's who's on trouble:

Gear up or get a dps secondary spec- you can't kill him if you don't have enough dps to deal with Possessed Blood

Save your cooldowns- Don't use them right away if you're having trouble, save your best dps abilities for when you have the stacks that increase damage.

Ranged characters shouldnt try to hit him from afar- Rivers of blood its much easier to dodge if you're at melee range to him.

Damage reduction affects the damage on Exsanguination so if you can predict it (I think he uses it every 2 or 3Blood Bolt)

He causes physical damage- despite from the looks, all his spells deal physical damage so stuff like Divine Protection don't affect the damage from any of his spells or attacks.

Comment by Oglevi

I just did this boss really easy and you get the Achievement! This is for hunters, might work with another class not sure. I send my pet in I get up the large stairway to where I can not hit him. I found if I take agro even once he becomes impossible for me. I run down the stairs and use Chimera shot and Glaive Toss then up the stairs. I have Stampede also I also use that. Rinse and repeat I used those two hits It took me about 8-10 mins to kill him. Hope this helps someone